The feeling he is in closer touch than his critics surfaces sharply when he remarks acidly of the City types who dropped him so quickly back in '96: "They've got the wrong perspective about shopping there.

Switzerland may derive satisfaction from its own low level of domestic corruption, but, as TI's report acidly notes, it is the Swiss who organize $2,000-a-day courses on the legal niceties of Asian bribery.

As Judge Robert Smith acidly remarked in his lone dissent, "It is hard to imagine any court saying that a decision about whether an utterance is constitutionally protected speech, or whether a search was unreasonable, or whether a school district has been guilty of racial discrimination, is not primarily a judicial exercise.

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